Guns Save Life, Inc. has filed suit against Cook County’s blatantly unconstitutional new ammunition tax, and along with that, the recently passed firearms tax in Guns Save Life v. Ali.

The suit relies in part on the United States Supreme Court case which ruled that citizens cannot “be required to pay a tax for the exercise of . . . a high constitutional privilege.” Follett v. Town of McCormick, 321 U.S. 578 (1944).

Just as taxing the right to vote is unconstitutional, or to attend church or a city council meeting would be unconstitutional, so too is this tax on the retail sale of ammunition.

Joining Guns Save Life in the suit is Maxon Shooter’s Supplies and Indoor Range and Marilyn Smolenski. Maxon’s, a Cook County retail merchant, has seen sales suffer as people buy their guns at other retailers outside of Cook County to save money and avoid the punitive, unconstitutional tax.

"A well educated Media, being necessary for the preservation of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed."

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

“One can never underestimate the idiocy of those determined to be offended by things that don't affect their real lives in the slightest.” —Me

“Hatred is the sharpest sword; the desire for peace is armor made of willow leaves in the face of an enemy who despises you, as neither alone will stop a strike that is aimed at your neck.” —Samurai proverb

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” —Robert Heinlein

“I reserve the right to take any action necessary to maintain the equilibrium in which I've chosen to exist.” —Me

I get really tired of seeing the same old photos of ChicagoRonin. and that other guy showing himself shooting something,,,,,, geez, save the bandwidth.

Anyway, great to see some folks taking positive action!

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Fellow Members: Please consider making at least an annual $25 contribution to this fine organization, which has proven its worth -----and you will then become a member of the Supporting Members Team. In this case, it's definitely about putting your money where your mouth is! And, getting results. Who knows what the future holds.....these may just be some of the best dollars you'll ever spend.

Looks like Crook is going to spend more of the tax payers money on fighting yet another battle in court.

I'm fine with that. I'm not fine with them continuing to create laws and new taxes against constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Hopefully Crook has to pay up. Seeing the county go bankrupt over their illogical taxation schemes will be pure bliss because at some point, people are going to wake up and start voting these idiots out of office.

Force and intimidation are the tools of tyrants. - Ron Paul

If Democrats quit shooting people, "gun violence" would go down by 80%.......

Taxation is theft

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny" - Thomas Jefferson

I get really tired of seeing the same old photos of ChicagoRonin. and that other guy showing himself shooting something,,,,,, geez, save the bandwidth.

Anyway, great to see some folks taking positive action!

Are you saying that you think I look like the RahmsFührer?

"A well educated Media, being necessary for the preservation of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed."

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

“One can never underestimate the idiocy of those determined to be offended by things that don't affect their real lives in the slightest.” —Me

“Hatred is the sharpest sword; the desire for peace is armor made of willow leaves in the face of an enemy who despises you, as neither alone will stop a strike that is aimed at your neck.” —Samurai proverb

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” —Robert Heinlein

“I reserve the right to take any action necessary to maintain the equilibrium in which I've chosen to exist.” —Me

We’ll be talking about Guns Save Life v. Ali and how GSL is venturing into the legal arena to protect and defend our Constitutional rights. We’ll talk about the upcoming gun “buyback” Rahm is funding, and how we’re going to get a (much bigger) slice of that pie. We’ll cover the latest news and information of what’s happening in the world.

Random side note: why didn't they go with "Guns Save Lives"? Was it already trademarked? For me at least, it seems to make more sense grammatically.

"The point of [so-called "assault weapon" bans]...is not to ban firearms that are dangerous, it's to ban firearms that gun owners want to own because the people making the laws don't like gun owners. If we want to buy non-semiauto AR-style rifles, they'll ban those too, and for the same reason."

There should be a law that states" if a politician sponsors or co sponsors a law that is later found to be unconstitutional the costs for the legal proceedings for both the state and the plaintiff should come from the election fund of the sponsors and their party. That would slow the "'good idea fairys" from spreading their crap. Right now there is no mechanism to hold those responsible for writing bad laws responsible except the ballot box which does not seem to be working.

Air goes in and out
Blood goes round and round
Any deviation of the above is a bad thing.

Agreed. There's legislative immunity, that needs to be stripped from politicians who knowingly and deliberately sponsor bills (that become law) which are facially unconstitutional. Pleading ignorance wouldn't save them in cases which have been ruled on by courts. Spitting on controlling precedent would be the most egregious offenses, such as what San Francisco did to trigger Jackson. Qualified immunity rather than absolute immunity, that would make them think twice before cramming laws through that infringe on our civil liberties.
The pathetic argument that legislators should enjoy absolute immunity because of potential retaliation by the minority when the minority becomes the majority, it doesn't hold water. First of all, in Chicago and Crook, the minority will NEVER end up becoming the majority. They have absolutely nothing to worry about other than internal garbage within their own party. They trample on the rights of their constituents with impunity. It's disgusting. I only advocate for such provisions in cases where even a blind person could see that the law is unconstitutional on its face and the legislators who passed it know it's unconstitutional. But don't care. Extreme cases, high bar for review so the majority doesn't use it to retaliate for laws passed while the majority was the minority.
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Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- This week, the Illinois General Assembly will convene for a short session.

During the short session it is important that you contact your state Representative and politely urge him or her to cosponsor House Bill 4348, introduced by state Representative Jerry Costello (D-116). HB 4348 seeks to remove the power of local governments and municipalities to impose a sales tax on firearm and ammunition purchases.

This legislation would also void the currently standing firearm and ammunition sales tax in the City of Chicago.

These taxes seek to make an already expensive product even more so, potentially pricing law-abiding citizens out of exercising their Second Amendment rights. Further, those taxes levied from gun owners are placed into the “Public Safety Fund,” thereby blaming law-abiding individuals and forcing them to pay for the crimes and acts committed by criminals.

Please contact your state Representative and politely urge him or her to cosponsor House Bill 4348.

"A well educated Media, being necessary for the preservation of a free State, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed."

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

“One can never underestimate the idiocy of those determined to be offended by things that don't affect their real lives in the slightest.” —Me

“Hatred is the sharpest sword; the desire for peace is armor made of willow leaves in the face of an enemy who despises you, as neither alone will stop a strike that is aimed at your neck.” —Samurai proverb

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” —Robert Heinlein

“I reserve the right to take any action necessary to maintain the equilibrium in which I've chosen to exist.” —Me